Veerappan gone, but elephants still getting killed due to other reasons, says SC favouring elephant corridors

Stressing on the need to have elephant corridors across the country to reduce animal fatalities due to accidents and other reasons, the Supreme Court today asked the Centre to come out with some "workable solution" in this regard The court noted that the population of elephants, which had declined drastically in southern states due to rampant poaching by notorious forest brigand Veerappan, had risen following his death but now they were being killed "due to other reasons".

"You have to do something in this elephant corridor issue. You find out some solution," a bench of justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta told Additional Solicitor General A N S Nadkarni, who was representing the Centre.

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